For of good name and wysdom and manere

She hath y-nough, and eek of gentilesse;

If she be fayr, thow wost thy-self, I gesse.

127. Ne I never saw a more bountevous

Of hir estat, ne a gladder, ne of speche

885

A freendlier, ne a more gracious

For to do wel, ne lasse hadde nede to seche

What for to doon; and [al this bet to eche],

In honour, to as fer as she may strecche,